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<h1>Velocityme Minutes 29</h1>
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      <td valign="top">2003-12-23<br>
18h00-20h00<br>
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Tokai Villas<br>
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      <td valign="top">Robert Crida (RC)<br>
Barry Radloff (BR)<br>
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      <td valign="top"><b>1. Minutes from meeting 28</b><br>
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      <td valign="top">1.1 The minutes were accepted<br>
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      <td valign="top"><b>2. Status Update</b><br>
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      <td valign="top">2.1 RC reported that SearchSessionBean now has a
method getAssignedPermissions which returns a set of permissions for a
user in a given node. This allows the UI to be much more efficient with
checking permissions, one call to the server instead of multiple with
the result that the UI is more responsive.
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      <td valign="top">2.2 RC suggested that the permission set could
be passed into the node display panel to further improve performance
and prevent a second identical permission search.
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      <td valign="top"><b>3. Database changes to convert description
strings to blobs or text types</b><br>
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      <td valign="top">3.1 Appears that MySQL allows column type to be
changed on the fly without corrupting data.
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      <td valign="top">3.2 Varchar which is used for strings in
velocityme use up to the number of bytes required but are not a fixed
size and so it is not very important to make the upper size smaller
where strings are typically short.<br>
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      <td valign="top">3.3 RC to identify how to get JBoss to create
tables using TEXT types for descriptions and other fields that require
more than 255 characters. Also manually alter the existing tables.
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      <td valign="top"><span style="font-weight: bold;">4. Attachments
to notes</span><br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">4.1 These are to be handled
within v0.1<br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">4.2 Needs a design meeting to
determine how the mechanism is to work.<br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">5.
When to add expenses</span><br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">5.1 These are to be made a
priority 1 after completion of v0.1<br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">6.&nbsp;
Using EJB 2.1</span><br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">6.1 It was decided that in order
to get the ORDER BY functionality the change should be made for v0.1<br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">6.2 BR to check baseline system
2003-12-17 into CVS. Should then check in updated system 2003-12-22.<br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">6.3 BR to check that JBoss 3.2.3
supports EJB 2.1 and get current system working with new JBoss container<br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">7.
Work distribution</span><br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">7.1 Use calendar panel and
spinners for entering time when assigning time and generating time
reports.<br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">7.2 Discuss best practices for
state machine design and produce some initial designs for internal use.
To be discussed at the next meeting.<br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">7.3 Departments are to be
changed to be children of organisations in the tree instead of having a
relationship with them.<br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">7.4 Contact details are to be
enabled in the UI but not necessarily completed.<br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">7.5 BR to provide Copy, Move and
delete functionality for nodes. Initially it is to be operated using an
Edit menu with Copy, Cut and Paste.<br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">7.6 Suitable icons are to be
selected for tree nodes and toolbar buttons.<br>
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      <td style="vertical-align: top;">7.7 A revised table of features
is to be drawn up at the next meeting with some goals set for
completion of short term features<br>
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      <td valign="top">Robert Crida<br>
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      <td valign="top">2003-12-23<br>
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      <td valign="top">2003-12-30<br>
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